Convenient shell scripts for everyday use, written in bash, perl, awk, python.

All scripts print a helpful usage message when used with -h or --help

The ./install.sh script will symlink these scripts in your ~/bin directory. It will not overwrite any existing files.

• bash/add-stub-pl.sh

  Insert a script header after the first line of a perl script.

• bash/add-stub-sh.sh

  Insert a script header after the first line of a shell script.

• bash/add-usage-sh.sh

  Add a usage() function after the first blank line of a shell script.

• bash/alert.sh

  Sound the system bell

• bash/backup.sh

  Archive files under BASE/sources/{daily,weekly,monthly}

• bash/bak.sh

  Move or copy files and directories with .bak or .YYYYMMDD suffix

• bash/bzr.sh

  Perform repository operations on a tree of bzr repositories

• bash/capitalize.sh

  Capitalize words in filenames.

• bash/col.sh

  Extract the n-th column of stdin

• bash/cp-replace.sh

  Replace regex patterns in filenames.

• bash/csv2csv.sh

  Convert CSV to CSV using specified locale

• bash/demoronizer.sh

  Convert non-ascii characters to ascii (rough) equivalents

• bash/dos2unix.sh

  Remove carriage return from files.

• bash/download-lj.sh

  Download Linux Journal PDFs from your digital subscription

• bash/download-lm.sh

  Download Linux Magazine PDFs from your digital subscription

• bash/extract-icon-from-platter.sh

  Extract an icon image from a platter of icon images.

• bash/find-recent.sh

  Find and sort files by atime/ctime/mtime

• bash/flac2mp3.sh

  Convert FLAC files to MP3 using flac and lame

• bash/get-checklists.sh

  Get checklists from Code Complete

• bash/git.sh

  Perform repository operations on a tree of Git repositories

• bash/icons2dim.sh

  Resize icon images to have specified width and height.

• bash/icons2square.sh

  Pad images with transparency to have equal width and height

• bash/iconv-filenames.sh

  Convert the encoding of filenames (if possible).

• bash/id3tag.sh

  Set id3 v2 tag on mp3 files in the current directory and rename nicely.

• bash/ipod2local.sh

  Import mp3 files from ipod to hard disk.

• bash/iptables-simple.sh

  Configure a very simple firewall using iptables.

• bash/lowercase.sh

  Rename files to all lowercase letters.

• bash/m4a2mp3.sh

  Convert M4A files to MP3 using faad and bladeenc

• bash/mv-replace.sh

  Replace regex patterns in filenames.

• bash/my-external-ip.sh

  Find my external IP address

• bash/my-ip.sh

  Print my local IP address

• bash/pdf-pages.sh

  Cut out a range of pages from PDF files.

• bash/quote.sh

  Enclose each line of input within quotes

• bash/rip-audiocd.sh

  Copy titles in an audio CD to wav files in the specified directory.

• bash/rip-dvd.sh

  Rip a DVD movie into a high quality DIVX file.

• bash/save-flash-linux.sh

  Copy a flash movie (youtube.com, etc) saved by a browser in /private

• bash/save-flash-mac.sh

  Copy a flash movie (youtube.com, etc) saved by a browser in /private

• bash/save-webpage.sh

  Save a webpage and all the files necessary to display properly.

• bash/screenshot.sh

  Take a screenshot of the entire screen or a window.

• bash/ssh-authorizeme.sh

  Add a public key to the authorized_keys file on a remote server.

• bash/ssh-tunnel-keeper.sh

  Create an ssh rtunnel and try to keep it alive as long as possible.

• bash/svn.sh

  Check out all projects in a Subversion repository into the specified directory.

• bash/svnadmin.sh

  Subversion repository tool based on svnadmin.

• bash/sys-vitalbackup-Linux.sh

  Backup most vital system files and most relevant system information.

• bash/template-html.sh

  Create a standards compliant HTML skeleton.

• bash/template-perl.sh

  Generate a Perl script template with a simple command line parser.

• bash/template-sh.sh

  Generate a /bin/sh script template with a simple command line parser.

• bash/unrar.sh

  Properly unrar files in directories containing spaces in their names.

• bash/uppercase.sh

  Rename files to all uppercase letters.

• bash/wav2mp3.sh

  Convert WAV files to MP3 using bladeenc or lame

• bash/wma2mp3.sh

  Convert WAV files to MP3 using mplayer, and bladeenc or lame

• bash/words.sh

  Find words in specified files or directories

• perl/FreeBSD.pl

  A package manager for FreeBSD emulating some of the functionality of apt-get.

• perl/atime.pl

  Print access time of specified files.

• perl/base64.pl

  Encode (= default) or decode Base64

• perl/dbi-info.pl

  Print the list of available DBI drivers and data sources.

• perl/geoip-lookup.pl

  Find the country of a hostname or IP address using Geo::IPfree

• awk/avg.awk

  Compute the average of numeric values in the input files or pipe.

• awk/max.awk

  Find the maximum numeric value in the input files or pipe.

• awk/min.awk

  Find the minimum numeric value in the input files or pipe.

• awk/sum.awk

  Compute the sum of numeric values in the input files or pipe.

• awk/var.awk

  Compute the variance of numeric values in the input files or pipe.

• python/free.py

  Display amount of free and used memory in the system

• python/paste.py

  TODO

• python/pwgen.py

  TODO

• python/reorder.py

  Add numeric prefix to filenames to match the order specified in a list file

• python/seq.py

  Print sequences of numbers, imitating the seq tool

• python/transpose.py

  TODO

• python/xpath.py

  TODO